Thousands of organizations use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host their applications and manage their data in the cloud. The advantage of geographic availability, scalability and reliability make AWS a great choice.Due to recent and more frequently-occurring breaches in security in a number of environments, It is necessary for us to take data protection strategy …
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Chef Start here with ease..
Introduction “Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything. Julia Child” Chef, the lead in automation industry has many tickling facet and calibre. Before introducing the potentials of “The Chef”, it’s non negotiable to evade the foresight of its relevance to devops exercises. Chef can take care of server automation, infrastructure environment …
Chef Journey
I’m starting a blog series on chef where I would be taking you to a journey of managing my current infrastructure using Chef. To start with these are the high level tasks lists that I’ve in mind: User Management : User’s creation or deletion on an environment(Dev/QA/Staging/Production) should be managed by chef, along with kind …
How to secure your Linux Server
Yesterday was a good and bad day for me, bad day because one of my linux server has been hacked. Good day because it was one of the most important task in my pipeline which I wanted to take up, that is securing my systems. As people say being agile or lazy :), do when …
How to Manage Amazon Web Services Instances part 1
If you want to minimize the amount of money you spend on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure, then this blog post is for you. In this post I will be discussing the rationale behind starting & stopping AWS instances in an automated fashion and more importantly, doing it in a correct way. Obviously you could …
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How to securely access your private app on cloud
One of the suggested practices in cloud administration is to always host your applications on a Virtual Private Cloud. Also, you should have a public subnet hosting the public facing apps, and a private subnet which hosts the private apps (like a database or a back-end service/app). To know more about why you need such …
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